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Robert John Martin
African Birdlife
|July - August 2017
The Western Cape lost one of its most experienced birders when Rob Martin passed away peacefully in his sleep on 29 May 2017.
Rob started birding in the 1950s, thanks to his parents, John and Elsie Martin, who enrolled him as a member of the Cape Bird Club at the tender age of four! It was an era when there was still plenty to discover about the birds of the region and it was on an outing with Professor C.J. (Dirk) Uys that Rob and his parents first saw a Booted Eagle near Piketberg in 1963. As Rob recounted in his article in this issue, hard as it may be to believe now, at that time the species was virtually unknown in the Cape.
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